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Petrified wood hiding stunning rare turquoise opal discovered
Nature continues to prove that it is the ultimate artist, crafting beauty that defies imagination. A recent discovery in ...
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An Aboriginal tool of petrified wood.
In 1966 whilst staying in the opal-mining area of Andamooka,South Australia, looking for opals around the mouth of an opal mine (noodling)I found an aboriginal stone cutting implement made from ...
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See the Enchanting, Ancient Forest in the Middle of a Desert
To see if the petrified wood was actually disappearing at an alarming rate, resource managers established survey plots with a specific number of pieces of wood; some were nearly barren in less ...
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Why hunting for 20-million-year-old petrified wood is so dangerous
An curved arrow pointing right. Petrified wood is one of the most sought-after materials in the world for both its aesthetic value and its scientific value. But in Indonesia, miners who risk their ...
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Finders Weepers
Enclosed were pieces of petrified wood that she and her father had pilfered from the park’s Crystal Forest. After taking the rocks, Tracie wrote, they visited her sister in California, where her ...